Meyerhold on TheatreMeyerhold on Theatre brings together in one volume Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, and covers his entire career as a director from 1902 to 1939. It contains a comprehensive selection from all published material, unabridged and translated from the original Russian, updated and supplemented with a critical commentary relating Meyerhold to his period and eye-witness accounts describing all his productions. The book is illustrated with photographs of Meyerhold's designs and productions. Within this diverse collection of sometimes dense, sometimes lyrical, and always fascinating writings, Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre whose influence continues to be felt throughout the theatre of today. This fourth edition features a new introduction by Prof. Jonathan Pitches, which helps to demystify some of the terminology Meyerhold and his associates used, and indicates the fundamental connection between culture and politics represented in his life and art. |
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2 The New Theatre Foreshadowed in Literature | 39 |
3 The TheatreStudio | 45 |
4 First Attempts at a Stylized Theatre | 57 |
5 The Stylized Theatre | 69 |
6 Notes on Productions | 77 |
17 The Solitude of Stanislavsky | 217 |
PART FIVE BIOMECHANICS CONSTRUCTIVISM ECCENTRISM CINEFICATION 19211925 | 223 |
18 Biomechanics | 243 |
19 The Magnanimous Cuckold | 255 |
20 Preacting | 257 |
PART SIX THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR 1926 | 259 |
21 Observations on the Play | 273 |
22 Meyerhold at Rehearsal | 277 |
PART TWO AT THE IMPERIAL THEATRES 19081917 | 89 |
7 Tristan and Isolde | 97 |
8 Dom Juan | 121 |
9 Orpheus at the Marinsky Theatre | 131 |
PART THREE DOCTOR DAPERTUTTO 19081917 | 133 |
10 The Fairground Booth | 145 |
11 Notes on Productions | 171 |
12 The Meyerhold Studio | 179 |
PART FOUR OCTOBER IN THE THEATRE 19171921 | 191 |
13 On the Contemporary Theatre | 205 |
14 Inaugural Speech to the Company of the RSFSR Theatre No 1 | 209 |
15 On the Staging of Verhaerens The Dawn | 211 |
16 Speech at an Open Debate on The Dawn | 215 |
PART SEVEN AN ALIEN THEATRE 19271940 | 291 |
23 The Reconstruction of the Theatre | 317 |
24 The Lady of the Camellias | 343 |
25 The Queen of Spades | 347 |
26 A Reply to Criticism | 361 |
27 At the Stanislavsky Opera | 371 |
PART EIGHT THE CINEMA | 375 |
28 The Picture of Dorian Gray | 381 |
29 Chaplin and Chaplinism | 389 |
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